Thanks very much with your patience and help.
I cannot reinstall this machine as it belongs to my client, but I was
going to try and make our lives easier (the developers) who have to
maintain the whole system
Regards
Mark Campbell
mark(dot)campbell(at)ucs-software(dot)co(dot)za
(011) 712 1521
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Mark Campbell <mark(dot)campbell(at)ucs-software(dot)co(dot)za> writes:
>
>> gcc -b elf -O2 -Wall -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline
>> -fno-strict-aliasing -I../../../../src/include -c -o xlog.o xlog.c
>> /usr/tmp/cczOwssE.s:651:syntax error at name: f
>> /usr/tmp/cczOwssE.s:654:syntax error at integer constant: 1
>> /usr/tmp/cczOwssE.s:1092:syntax error at name: f
>> /usr/tmp/cczOwssE.s:1095:syntax error at integer constant: 1
>> /usr/tmp/cczOwssE.s:1541:syntax error at name: f
>> /usr/tmp/cczOwssE.s:1544:syntax error at integer constant: 1
>> /usr/tmp/cczOwssE.s:2218:syntax error at name: f
>> /usr/tmp/cczOwssE.s:2221:syntax error at integer constant: 1
>> /usr/tmp/cczOwssE.s:2327:syntax error at name: f
>> /usr/tmp/cczOwssE.s:2330:syntax error at integer constant: 1
>> /usr/tmp/cczOwssE.s:10457:syntax error at name: f
>> /usr/tmp/cczOwssE.s:10460:syntax error at integer constant: 1
>> /usr/tmp/cczOwssE.s:10732:syntax error at name: f
>> /usr/tmp/cczOwssE.s:10735:syntax error at integer constant: 1
>> gmake[4]: *** [xlog.o] Error 1
>>
>
> I'm coming to the conclusion that there's something seriously broken
> about your system. You were having trouble with gcc back at the
> beginning, IIRC, and seeing it emit malformed assembly code (which
> seems to be what's happening above) is certainly something that should
> never happen. So you've got a borked compiler and/or assembler,
> no ar, headers that don't even come close to following the Single
> Unix Spec ... if I were you I'd get something more standard, or
> at least more up-to-date. You're going to have trouble building
> *any* nontrivial software on that thing.
>
> Reading between the lines, I surmise that you initially had an
> installation without development tools (ar is certainly on the
> short list of things that MUST be there to do any development).
> It could be that some of the breakage is due to piecemeal addition
> of devel tools. If so, it might help to reinstall the system from
> the ground up, being sure to select all the devel tools this time.
>
> regards, tom lane
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